Council plans to put bicycle lockers in city

NEW BIKE storage hangars could be installed across the city of York after a temporary locker on Heslington Road was made permanent.

Some residents praised the initiative – but a petition raised concerns about the hangar taking up a parking space and claims that it is an “eyesore”.

All six secure cycle storage spaces have been fully booked during the six-month trial, according to a council report.

And one resident who wrote in support said that “storage in these tiny terraces is so limited the installation of the bike hangar has given [the resident] the opportunity to get a bike”.

THE HOME Secretary has called on social media companies to act faster in removing “appalling hatred” from their platforms, following outrage over anti-Semitic posts made by grime artist Wiley.

Police are investigating a series of comments made on the musician’s Instagram and Twitter accounts on Friday that led to him being banned from both sites for seven days.

In a tweet yesterday, Priti Patel said: “The antisemitic posts from Wiley are abhorrent.

“They should not have been able to remain on Twitter and

Instagram for so long, and I have asked them for a full explanation.

“Social media companies must act much faster to remove such appalling hatred from their platforms.”

Following Wiley’s posts, Twitter was accused of “ignoring antiSemitism” as his tweets were still visible 12 hours after they were first posted.

A number of tweets have now been removed and he has been given a seven-day ban by the site.

A spokesperson for Facebook, which owns Instagram, said the platform had also issued the rapper with a seven-day block on his account. Twitter previously said Wiley’s account had been temporarily locked “for violating our hateful conduct policy”, while Facebook said there was “no place for hate speech on Instagram”.

Wiley’s manager John Woolf said A-List Management had “cut all ties” with the musician following the series of social media posts made on accounts belonging to him on Friday.

The Campaign Against Antisemitism asked police to investigate and called for Wiley’s accounts to be shut down.